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The film, based on Raymond Chandler's eponymous 1953 novel, inspired Connelly to want to become a mystery writer. Connelly went home and read all of Chandler's works featuring Philip Marlowe, and decided to transfer to the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, major in journalism, and minor in creative writing. [4]
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Jan 8, 2014 · He blacks out his office and drinks gallons of tea—how the creator, Michael Connelly, of Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller writes a book a year. Noah Charney. Updated Apr. 14, 2017 1:07PM EDT ...
Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing — a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.
It has been more than 20 years since author Michael Connelly introduced readers to the character who has become a fixture in his best-selling crime novels: Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.
But overall I love Los Angeles and love writing about it. In naming my character after a real historic figure I was to a small extent continuing literary tradition. Many writers, including Raymond Chandler, drew the names of their characters from literature and art.
Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel , Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and fiction.
Oct 15, 2019 · The author talks about his new novel, “The Night Fire,” and why, despite TV and podcasting fame, he’s a book writer at heart.
